Formação de educadores do campo: contribuições para pensar a educação ambiental

Abstract

Different authors agree that Brazilian farmers are in too many difficulties related to environments and social problems and to also happens because so many times these farmers do not have the rights informations for the right development of their activities. These difficulties are responsable for the destruction of the natural resources at the taken areas. Searching for a special and single education the Movement of the Landers Farmers (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem-Terra (MST)) made an investment in a Course of Education for Agrarian Reform Teachers named Land Education (CPT) applied for Federal University of Pará (UFPA) during the period of February from 2001 to May 2005 with a partnership of National Colonization Institute and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) and National Program of Education in Agrarian Reform (PRONERA). This Paper has the following aims: (1) study principles that support the Land Education Course through referential documents; (2) watch the perception of the students (teachers) regarding to the educational proposal of the course and (3) characterize the praxis of the graduated student (teachers) in Environmental Education. The study explains the qualitative research in an investigative approach-the narrative. In beginning was done a documental research that helped in a formulation of a semi-structured interview droven to five students (teachers) from CPT, therefore it was visited two settlements in one camping. For the systematization and analysis the subject was literally transcribed in order to identify important topics as well as conveniences and contradictions trying to establish categories of analyses. In order to go deeper in this focus, it was used a technique of data triangulation and theories as one more way of interpretation of the colleted informations. This way, it is concluded that the proposal of the Course in spite of some difficulties was well accepted for the students (teachers) and it was a positive concept as a reflection and a better quality of life through the social inclusion and respecting the country’s Education and its variety or its diversity. As for Environment Education of that students (teachers) who made this Course it is clear that we have important items to considered as: (1) Environment Education is one of the ways of mentality changing (2) Environment Education is one of the sources of control the human’s intervention in the environmental. It is believed that this study has contributed for many different Course as the Land Education (CPT) and it was an important tool to increase the knowledge about environmental Education based on the characteristics found on the settlements and camping of Pará.